مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.41

2.41

Each khān has two lakhs [1], each lakh being a hundred thousand tankas [2], each tanka eight dirhams; this is his personal portion, from which nothing goes to any of his troops. Each malik has from sixty thousand to fifty thousand tankas, each amīr forty thousand to thirty thousand tankas, and the iṣbahsālārs twenty thousand tankas or thereabouts. As for the troops, each soldier has from ten thousand tankas to a thousand tankas; as for the Sultan's mamlūks, each mamlūk has from five thousand tankas to a thousand tankas, besides their food, clothing and fodder [3]. The troops and mamlūks have no lands; they take their money in cash from the treasury. As for those others, the lands are something else.